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Study of 440,000+ people found lifetime cancer risk varies dramatically based on individual factors • May 20, 2026 at 8:55 AM • ascopubs.org • r/science
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Moderate to heavy drinking tends to be associated with increased bodily inflammation, even for individuals who maintain a highly nutritious diet. The study provides evidence that eating well might not be enough to counter the harmful physical effects of frequent alcohol consumption. • May 20, 2026 at 8:52 AM • psypost.org • r/science
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Yeunjoo Choi from Igalia on Chromium • May 20, 2026 at 8:49 AM • theconsensus.dev • Hacker News
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Erasing Existentials • May 20, 2026 at 8:45 AM • wolfgirl.dev • Lobsters
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Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE • May 20, 2026 at 8:43 AM • alqst.org • Hacker News
147
Neutron scattering explains why gluten-free pasta falls apart (2025) • May 20, 2026 at 8:42 AM • phys.org • Hacker News
507
Anna's Archive hit with $19.5M default judgment and global domain takedown order • May 20, 2026 at 8:30 AM • torrentfreak.com • Hacker News
126
New map reveals lost roads of the Roman Empire • May 20, 2026 at 8:22 AM • scientificamerican.com • Hacker News
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You can access Gemini chat history without unlocking your phone with Android 16 • May 20, 2026 at 8:21 AM • reddit.com • Hacker News
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Adults should aim to do between 560-610 minutes/week of moderate to vigorous physical activity to achieve a substantial reduction in the risk of heart attacks and stroke (3-4 times higher than the current public health recommendation of 150 minutes ), suggest the findings of an observational study • May 20, 2026 at 8:17 AM • bmjgroup.com • r/science
160
The quadratic sandwich • May 20, 2026 at 8:06 AM • fedemagnani.github.io • Hacker News
565
Saying goodbye to asm.js • May 20, 2026 at 8:01 AM • spidermonkey.dev • Hacker News
429
Railway has new term of service • May 20, 2026 at 7:59 AM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
99
Comparing an LZ4 Decompressor on Four Legacy CPUs • May 20, 2026 at 7:58 AM • bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com • Hacker News
57
Saying goodbye to asm.js • May 20, 2026 at 7:57 AM • spidermonkey.dev • Lobsters
527
A study tracking children over a period of seven years identified distinct brain-wave patterns emerging from age 9 can forecast a child’s vulnerability to anxiety or depression by age 13. Anxiety is linked to activity on the right side of the brain, while depression is tied to the left. • May 20, 2026 at 7:54 AM • eurekalert.org • r/science
753
College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos • May 20, 2026 at 7:51 AM • tomshardware.com • Hacker News
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Once-A-Day Pill Effective In Treating Sleep Apnea Without CPAP. In clinical trials, people taking the pill saw their breathing interruptions decrease by about 44% compared to almost 18% for those taking a placebo. Nearly 1 in 5 taking the pill achieved complete relief from sleep apnea • May 20, 2026 at 7:45 AM • site.thoracic.org • r/science
216
Virtual Museum with Every Operating System You Can Think Of • May 20, 2026 at 7:45 AM • virtualosmuseum.org • r/programming
40
LLemdashes • May 20, 2026 at 7:20 AM • wil.to • Lobsters
20
C++26: More Function Wrappers • May 20, 2026 at 7:17 AM • sandordargo.com • Hacker News
97
I used to think experienced developers had perfectly organized reusable code systems. • May 20, 2026 at 7:01 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
69
Google Accused of Pushing 'Free For Life' G Suite Users Onto Paid Plans • May 20, 2026 at 7:00 AM • theregister.com • Slashdot
546
Google’s AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back • May 20, 2026 at 6:57 AM • bbc.com • Hacker News
618
Map of Metal • May 20, 2026 at 6:47 AM • mapofmetal.com • Hacker News
1005
Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier • May 20, 2026 at 6:35 AM • qwen.ai • Hacker News
192
No way to parse integers in C (2022) • May 20, 2026 at 6:28 AM • blog.habets.se • Hacker News
66
"Stick" – A primitive/fun interactive demo of a tiny rig to animate layout • May 20, 2026 at 6:17 AM • cosmiciron.github.io • Hacker News
395
Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025) • May 20, 2026 at 6:04 AM • zfhuang99.github.io • Hacker News
25
Cities: Skylines Uses a Stock-Market Analogy to Influence Gameplay • May 20, 2026 at 5:55 AM • jkm.dev • Hacker News
93
Public have more fear than hope on AI and future of work, study finds • May 20, 2026 at 5:26 AM • kcl.ac.uk • Hacker News
137
A new book about humanity's obsession with gold • May 20, 2026 at 5:09 AM • economist.com • Hacker News
162
Blood Pumping Mechanism of the Hoof (2020) • May 20, 2026 at 5:03 AM • horses.extension.org • Hacker News
711
Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension • May 20, 2026 at 4:37 AM • blog.railway.com • Hacker News
59
Notes about reading messages with the Python email packages • May 20, 2026 at 4:13 AM • utcc.utoronto.ca • Hacker News
28
Github: internal repositories have been accessed • May 20, 2026 at 3:49 AM • nitter.net • Lobsters
44
Need honest guidance from seniors where do I actually stand in tech right now? • May 20, 2026 at 3:41 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt booed at Arizona U commencement speech • May 20, 2026 at 3:08 AM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
46
Webb Discovers One of the Universe's First Galaxies • May 20, 2026 at 3:00 AM • phys.org • science.slashdot
62
Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame. • May 20, 2026 at 2:27 AM • bbc.com • ~enviro
66
Everything in C is undefined behavior • May 20, 2026 at 2:26 AM • blog.habets.se • Lobsters
81
GitHub Source Code Breach - TeamPCP Claims Access to Internal Source Code • May 20, 2026 at 2:08 AM • cybersecuritynews.com • Lobsters
1200
Everything in C is undefined behavior • May 20, 2026 at 2:07 AM • blog.habets.se • Hacker News
152
Ex-Apple engineer says Apple deliberately slows older phones via updates • May 20, 2026 at 1:56 AM • macobserver.com • Hacker News
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Complex decisions: The faster the better - When it comes to complex strategic decisions, a shorter thinking time is associated with a higher quality of decisions. • May 20, 2026 at 1:49 AM • lmu.de • r/science
221
Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy • May 20, 2026 at 1:43 AM • news.infomaniak.com • Hacker News
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There's no earthly way of knowing which direction we are going • May 20, 2026 at 1:33 AM • kottke.org • Hacker News
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India's hottest district shuts at 10 am as mercury breaches 48 C mark • May 20, 2026 at 1:07 AM • hindustantimes.com • Hacker News
31
Testing MiniMax M2.7 via API on three real ML and coding workflows • May 20, 2026 at 12:51 AM • andlukyane.com • Hacker News
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Even by Trumpian standards, a $1.8B fund for friends is bad • May 20, 2026 at 12:18 AM • economist.com • Hacker News
268
GitHub Compromised • May 20, 2026 at 12:12 AM • twitter.com/github • Hacker News
75
Oversharing in personal sites • May 20, 2026 at 12:04 AM • radarambles.bearblog.dev • Bear
68
Fast Factorial Algorithms • May 19, 2026 at 11:55 PM • luschny.de • Hacker News
56
If you're just going to sit there doing nothing, at least do nothing correctly (2024) • May 19, 2026 at 11:45 PM • devblogs.microsoft.com • Lobsters
33
trying to imagine sisyphus happy • May 19, 2026 at 11:36 PM • tiramisu.bearblog.dev • Bear
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Minnesota Becomes First State To Ban Prediction Markets • May 19, 2026 at 11:30 PM • npr.org • yro.slashdot
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Taking psychedelic substances with a romantic partner is associated with a deeper sense of mutual understanding and enhanced relationship quality. In contrast, using these substances alone might leave partners out of sync, potentially contributing to relationship dissolution later on. • May 19, 2026 at 11:28 PM • psypost.org • r/science
105
Why Ruby Still Feels Like Home After All These Years • May 19, 2026 at 11:25 PM • caio.ca • Lobsters
29
Evals will break • May 19, 2026 at 11:10 PM • wanglun1996.github.io • Hacker News
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Alternatives to HN for "tech outside of AI" discussion? • May 19, 2026 at 10:43 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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Architect of the UK Online Safety Act Calls for Its Complete Repeal • May 19, 2026 at 10:17 PM • prestonbyrne.com • Hacker News
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Key, in sight – A guide, of sorts, to keyboard customization • May 19, 2026 at 9:53 PM • aresluna.org • Hacker News
524
Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame • May 19, 2026 at 9:43 PM • bbc.com • Hacker News
461
FiveThirtyEight articles on the Internet Archive • May 19, 2026 at 9:34 PM • fivethirtyeightindex.com • Hacker News
907
Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved] • May 19, 2026 at 8:23 PM • status.railway.com • Hacker News
456
Railway is down, their google cloud account got blocked • May 19, 2026 at 8:16 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
91
El Niño is coming. The last time ocean temp. looked like this, millions died • May 19, 2026 at 8:06 PM • respublicamgz.substack.com • Hacker News
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Tell HN: Google banned Railway's account. Everything down • May 19, 2026 at 8:03 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories • May 19, 2026 at 8:01 PM • twitter.com/github • Hacker News
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HTML-in-Canvas Demos • May 19, 2026 at 7:49 PM • github.com/GoogleChromeLabs • Hacker News
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AI Didn't Break College. It Exposed What College Was • May 19, 2026 at 7:24 PM • greyenlightenment.com • Hacker News
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Researchers who use hallucinated references to face ArXiv ban • May 19, 2026 at 7:14 PM • nature.com • Hacker News
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Google Cloud Auto-Banned Railway.app Account – Major Railway Outage • May 19, 2026 at 7:02 PM • twitter.com/acgfbr • Hacker News
96
Railway Is Having a Major Outage • May 19, 2026 at 7:01 PM • status.railway.com • Hacker News
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Plex Triples Lifetime Subscription Cost To $750 • May 19, 2026 at 7:00 PM • nerds.xyz • Slashdot
440
Railway is down • May 19, 2026 at 6:53 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
28
Any fellow XCP-ng users here? • May 19, 2026 at 6:35 PM • tildes.net • ~comp
636
Remove-AI-Watermarks – CLI and library for removing AI watermarks from images • May 19, 2026 at 6:30 PM • github.com/wiltodelta • Hacker News
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IRS Must Drop Audits of Trump and Family • May 19, 2026 at 6:16 PM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
78
Google Changes Its Search Box for the First Time in 25 Years • May 19, 2026 at 6:00 PM • nytimes.com • Slashdot
37
Solo Dev Kills YouTube Ask • May 19, 2026 at 5:46 PM • neotube.ai • Hacker News
59
1k-year-old dingo bones show that it was injured, cared for, and ritually buried • May 19, 2026 at 5:41 PM • popsci.com • Hacker News
798
Kids who take risks at play make faster, smarter decisions in traffic • May 19, 2026 at 5:40 PM • news.ubc.ca • r/science
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Donald Trump and sons to be 'forever' exempt from tax audits • May 19, 2026 at 5:35 PM • ft.com • Hacker News
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Grokipedia was launched by Elon Musk last October with a promise that the AI-written encyclopedia systematically “fixes” left-leaning biases in Wikipedia. New study found Grokipedia is selectively drawing on more-right leaning news sources on the topics of religion, history, literature and art. • May 19, 2026 at 5:32 PM • eurekalert.org • r/science
84
Is it worth it still to start your own web agency? • May 19, 2026 at 5:25 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Contrary to the rhetoric of anti-wind groups, there is no evidence that proximity to wind turbines leads to adverse health outcomes [Data: longitudinal health surveys of 120,000+ households and consumer spending records of people living near wind turbines]. • May 19, 2026 at 4:56 PM • pnas.org • r/science
302
PHP's Oddities • May 19, 2026 at 4:41 PM • flowtwo.io • Hacker News
41
Java: Rethink Domain Primitives with Valhalla • May 19, 2026 at 4:31 PM • dfa1.github.io • Hacker News
622
CISA accidentally leaked their own keys on GitHub • May 19, 2026 at 4:31 PM • krebsonsecurity.com • r/programming
142
What Is Happening to Publishing? • May 19, 2026 at 4:23 PM • resobscura.substack.com • Hacker News
64
Plex's 200% Lifetime Pass price hike tries forcing users to another subscription • May 19, 2026 at 4:13 PM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
81
I am not a Software Engineer • May 19, 2026 at 4:05 PM • huronbikes.mataroa.blog • Hacker News
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US transportation bill would add a $130 annual fee for EV drivers • May 19, 2026 at 4:00 PM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
67
Battery costs just plunged 70% — this changes everything • May 19, 2026 at 3:59 PM • youtube.com • ~enviro
90
Solving the “Zork” Mystery • May 19, 2026 at 3:56 PM • dpolakovic.space • Hacker News
738
Tesla's lithium refinery discharges 231,000 gallons of polluted wastewater a day • May 19, 2026 at 3:52 PM • autonocion.com • Hacker News
31
Show HN: Yt-x v0.8.0 – Browse, play, and download YouTube from the terminal • May 19, 2026 at 3:44 PM • github.com/Benexl • Hacker News
29
Era: From Nature publication to catalyzing Computational Discovery • May 19, 2026 at 3:34 PM • research.google • Hacker News
511
OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool • May 19, 2026 at 3:34 PM • openai.com • Hacker News
931
The entry level dev jobs are disappearing. • May 19, 2026 at 3:25 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
357
Dumb ways for an open source project to die • May 19, 2026 at 3:22 PM • nesbitt.io • Hacker News
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Nothing New Under the Algorithm-Sycophancy, Toxic Positivity & the Industry of Yes • May 19, 2026 at 3:20 PM • thecynicalnerd.bearblog.dev • Bear
432
Mistral AI acquires Emmi AI • May 19, 2026 at 3:14 PM • emmi.ai • Hacker News
1024P
Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets • May 19, 2026 at 3:13 PM • npr.org • Hacker News
34
QUIC has a lot going for it, but it is a large library (six figure LoC) • May 19, 2026 at 3:10 PM • twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack • Hacker News
57
I am not a Software Engineer • May 19, 2026 at 3:06 PM • huronbikes.mataroa.blog • Lobsters
56
StanChart To Cut Over 7,000 Jobs, Boost AI To Replace 'Lower-Value Human Capital' • May 19, 2026 at 3:00 PM • slashdot.org • Slashdot
708P
Disney erased FiveThirtyEight • May 19, 2026 at 2:56 PM • natesilver.net • Hacker News
102
The TTY Demystified (2008) • May 19, 2026 at 2:40 PM • linusakesson.net • Hacker News
38
Show HN: Pg_deltax, Apache-licensed alternative to TimescaleDB • May 19, 2026 at 2:36 PM • github.com/xataio • Hacker News
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Google changes its search box • May 19, 2026 at 2:34 PM • blog.google • Hacker News
48
pgBackRest will continue • May 19, 2026 at 2:24 PM • pgbackrest.org • Lobsters
56
Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements • May 19, 2026 at 2:18 PM • boston25news.com • Hacker News
220
How Cities: Skylines uses a stock-market analogy to drive almost everything in the game • May 19, 2026 at 2:12 PM • jkm.dev • r/programming
67
Deciphering the Hashihara Castle Town Map • May 19, 2026 at 2:04 PM • obayashi.co.jp • Hacker News
604
Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026 • May 19, 2026 at 2:03 PM • developers.googleblog.com • Hacker News
100
We made our filesystem 47× faster by deleting it • May 19, 2026 at 2:01 PM • microsandbox.dev • Hacker News
132P
'Capitalism has to become more humane': a Stanford economist on big tech • May 19, 2026 at 1:57 PM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
127
Google Search as you know it is over • May 19, 2026 at 1:56 PM • techcrunch.com • Hacker News
181
Gemini 3.5 Flash: frontier intelligence with action • May 19, 2026 at 1:49 PM • blog.google • Hacker News
466
Gemini Omni • May 19, 2026 at 1:46 PM • deepmind.google • Hacker News
61
Pokemon Gen2 compression myth • May 19, 2026 at 1:45 PM • reddit.com • Lobsters
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Gemini 3.5 Flash • May 19, 2026 at 1:43 PM • blog.google • Hacker News
311
Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements • May 19, 2026 at 1:42 PM • apnews.com • Hacker News
24
Cursor Cloud Agents Down • May 19, 2026 at 1:37 PM • forum.cursor.com • Hacker News
65
CopyFail: From Pod to Host • May 19, 2026 at 1:25 PM • xint.io • Hacker News
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AI, "Humanity", and Dr. Manhattan Syndrome: A Communications Intervention • May 19, 2026 at 1:22 PM • personfamiliar.com • Hacker News
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'Comically bad' datasets used to train clinical models for stroke and diabetes • May 19, 2026 at 1:16 PM • retractionwatch.com • Hacker News
43
To any professional web devs that work in a professional company, Have you ever used W3.css? • May 19, 2026 at 1:01 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
447
Google I/O • May 19, 2026 at 1:01 PM • io.google • Hacker News
74
A 1955 Los Alamos computer experiment changed our understanding of chaos • May 19, 2026 at 12:55 PM • lanl.gov • Hacker News
28
Google IO 26 Keynote [video] • May 19, 2026 at 12:53 PM • youtube.com • Hacker News
56
Growing tribe of jobless techies is stuck in Silicon Valley's new reality • May 19, 2026 at 12:42 PM • latimes.com • Hacker News
48
Fixing the Most Dangerous Dam in the World • May 19, 2026 at 12:42 PM • practical.engineering • Hacker News
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KV Sharing, MHC, and Compressed Attention • May 19, 2026 at 12:40 PM • magazine.sebastianraschka.com • Hacker News
126
Using HTTP/2 Cleartext for a server in Go 1.24 • May 19, 2026 at 12:40 PM • clarityboss.com • Hacker News
40
Programming as Theory Building (1985) [pdf] • May 19, 2026 at 12:35 PM • gwern.net • Hacker News
59
'You can hear me now or pay me later' Music exec tells graduates booing AI • May 19, 2026 at 12:14 PM • independent.co.uk • Hacker News
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Congress Wants You to Pay $130 a Year Just to Drive an Electric Car • May 19, 2026 at 12:09 PM • insideevs.com • Hacker News
86
Better generated branch names with jj • May 19, 2026 at 12:02 PM • ddbeck.com • Lobsters
116
Microsoft Surprises With Its First Server Linux Distribution: Azure Linux 4.0 • May 19, 2026 at 12:00 PM • zdnet.com • Slashdot
293
AI is too expensive • May 19, 2026 at 11:59 AM • wheresyoured.at • Hacker News
33P
Don't let the old man in • May 19, 2026 at 11:55 AM • robertbirming.com • Bear
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Show HN: Superlog (YC P26) – Observability that installs itself and fixes bugs • May 19, 2026 at 11:54 AM • superlog.sh • Hacker News
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I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of • May 19, 2026 at 11:53 AM • virtualosmuseum.org • Hacker News
181
Converting an Integer to a Decimal String in Under Two Nanoseconds • May 19, 2026 at 11:43 AM • onlinelibrary.wiley.com • Hacker News
545
Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers • May 19, 2026 at 11:30 AM • reuters.com • Hacker News
187
Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, and Fragnesia kernel vulnerabilities • May 19, 2026 at 11:27 AM • gentoo.org • Hacker News
69
Why blogging without a niche feels like freedom • May 19, 2026 at 11:21 AM • mikeshuey.com • Bear
616
Damaged DNA can spread between human cells via tubelike structures. If tumors use this DNA transfer trick, harmful mutations could potentially spread from cancer cells to healthy cells. • May 19, 2026 at 11:18 AM • sciencenews.org • r/science
2021
I’ve joined Anthropic • May 19, 2026 at 11:07 AM • twitter.com/karpathy • Hacker News
55
My wife releases her 5th book today! • May 19, 2026 at 11:03 AM • tildes.net • ~books
402
Why is almost everyone right-handed? A new study connects it to bipedalism • May 19, 2026 at 10:50 AM • ox.ac.uk • Hacker News
41
How we used Quint to find over 10 bugs in SQLite while hardening Turso • May 19, 2026 at 10:43 AM • turso.tech • Lobsters
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Tristan Davey's Punch Card Archive • May 19, 2026 at 10:39 AM • punchcards.tristandavey.com • Hacker News
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Iran demands Big Tech pay fees for undersea Internet cables in Strait of Hormuz • May 19, 2026 at 10:12 AM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
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Nobody Cares, Write Anyway • May 19, 2026 at 10:11 AM • blog.absurdpirate.com • Bear
172
Going full AI engineer, not touching code anymore • May 19, 2026 at 10:08 AM • max.gp • Hacker News
48
The Palomar Lights • May 19, 2026 at 10:05 AM • comics.phillyharper.com • Hacker News
121
Show HN: I made a 3D pose maker for artists • May 19, 2026 at 10:04 AM • setpose.com • Hacker News
163
Type out the code • May 19, 2026 at 9:40 AM • haskellforall.com • r/programming
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Type out the code • May 19, 2026 at 9:37 AM • haskellforall.com • Lobsters
182
Anthropic Is Preparing for IPO and We Should Be Worried • May 19, 2026 at 9:30 AM • vincentschmalbach.com • Hacker News
148
What would you want from a forge? • May 19, 2026 at 9:29 AM • lobste.rs • Lobsters
161
New Lifetime Plex Pass Pricing • May 19, 2026 at 9:26 AM • plex.tv • Hacker News
16
The unreasonable effectiveness of ProseMirror model in rich text transformation • May 19, 2026 at 9:23 AM • smoores.dev • ~comp
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Turning down the heat from data centers | Data Center Waste Heat as an Emerging Urban Thermal Hazard: First Field Measurements of Neighborhood-Scale Air Temperature Impacts Open Access • May 19, 2026 at 9:12 AM • news.asu.edu • r/science
720
OpenBSD 7.9 • May 19, 2026 at 9:11 AM • openbsd.org • Hacker News
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IDF struggles to curb endless feed of soldiers posting misdeeds on social media • May 19, 2026 at 8:59 AM • timesofisrael.com • Hacker News